The agency quoted the company as saying that "as a result of this illegal breach some information from the company's email system and customers' database could be compromised."

Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been hit by a cyberattack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe's largest gas supplier and NATO's northernmost member.

Technicians were working to "mitigate the consequences" of the attack, the ministry wrote in a statement, adding that initial checks showed no evidence of data theft. It was too early to predict when activities would be back to normal, it said.

Australia's TechnologyOne Ltd said on Wednesday it had detected an unauthorised third-party access to its back-office systems, becoming the latest target in a series of cyberattacks that has bogged companies in the country since last year.

"We were recently contacted by a ransomware group who claimed they have illegally obtained a limited number of Crown files," a spokesperson of the formerly listed firm said in a statement.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said Monday that midsize law firm Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach has agreed to pay $200,000 to the state over data security lapses that led to a 2021 data breach.

An interior ministry spokesperson on Tuesday confirmed that the German government was carrying out a general review of telecoms tech suppliers, but said that this was not directed at specific manufacturers.

An opposition-linked Polish mayor had his phone hacked using Pegasus spyware, Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported on Friday, amid allegations that the country's special services have used the technology against government opponents.

The Australian government on Monday said it planned to overhaul its cybersecurity rules and set up an agency to oversee government investment in the field and help coordinate responses to hacker attacks.

The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said the outage was the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Reuters was unable to independently verify the reason for the outages.